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A hefty majority of Americans (58%) said last month that they thought it would be wrong for Donald Trump to order the cases against him to be dropped, according to the USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll. But now Trump will likely escape any accountability for any of his alleged crimes, according to some experts.

Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday morning, journalist Ken Dilanian said that special counsel Jack Smith might sprint to the finish of the election subversion case in D.C., but there's no real chance of finishing the trial given that there is no trial date. Meanwhile, Trump's legal ally Mike Davis has already tweeted a warning to Smith telling him to "lawyer up," indicating that the pro-Trump staff is ready to begin their retribution campaign.

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) said he would "absolutely" continue to pursue an investigation into President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, despite Donald Trump's re-election.

During a Thursday interview on Newsmax, host Shaun Kraisman noted that the federal cases against Trump were expected to be dropped after he won the election.

A former Donald Trump staffer who wrote a sharply critical New York Times op-ed about his administration warned the former president would undertake "wild" actions in his second term.

Miles Taylor, who published the anonymous op-ed in 2018 and then a book the following year, told CNN that Trump planned "dramatic" action on immigration immediately upon taking office again after his election win Tuesday.

A pair of CNN panelists clashed over the "anti-Blackness" inherent to Donald Trump's immigration policies.

The president-elect has promised to crack down on immigrants living in the U.S., and his running mate J.D. Vance estimated that could result in a million people being forcibly removed from the country per year, and conservative commentator Shermichael Singleton argued that policy shouldn't be considered controversial.

Other CNN panelists pounced on a Republican strategist who argued that Donald Trump's felony convictions should vanish after he won a second term as president.

Trump is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 26 for his convictions on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, and he remains liable for $464 million in penalties for business fraud in a lawsuit brought by New York attorney general Letitia James, but GOP strategist Brad Todd argued that the election should nullify those cases.

Appearing on MSNBC just 24 hours after Donald Trump was declared the next president of the United States, presidential historian Michael Beschloss ticked off the many ways that Trump could abuse his powers with the approval of a compliant Supreme Court.

Speaking with "Way Too Early" host Jonathan Lemire, the noted historian pointed to a comment the president-elect made that he said should alarm everyone.

"Abroad I think people will wonder about the stability of our society and there's likely to be a lot of protests at home," he told the host. "The question is how much will people take if, let's say he uses as he has discussed in the past, the Insurrection Act? The Insurrection Act is used, for instance, to send federal army soldiers into a city that he deems full of unrest and up rising and that state says he or she can't handle it."

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"There's a prospect that if a president comes in and pushes presidential power to the maximum, you know, we could see if not a breaking point, at least a crisis of a kind that we've never seen before," he darkly added. "Remember, Jonathan, you've written about it. When he was president, he used to talk about the presidential power that he had that was almost sacred. He said some of my powers are so awesome, that I don't even talk about those."

"And now he has, as you noted, a Supreme Court that's more or less a president can do anything he or she --," Lemire replied only to be interrupted by the historian who stated, "We've never seen that in all of American history."

"That's right there are examples across this world where democracies backslide," Lemire added.

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